Show Dawn After Darkness The possibility that the Ephraim cannery may operate this summer and thus give farmers of Sanpete and Juab counties the opportunity to grow a cash crop and also afford brief but much needed industrial employment to hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of Sanpete citizens came as a very bright ray of hope last week It was like the burst of dawn after a gloomy night And gloom was indeed thick over the county when it was that the loss of a quarter million payroll payroll payroll pay pay- roll seemed certain for this year at least Just how can that payroll be replaced in Sanpete was a common question v Another dawn that came following the gloom of the theno theno theno no canning in 1950 announcement was the dawning on nearly nearly near near- ly all citizens that this problem is not one for the regular peo growers only but is the problem of all the people Especially Especially Especially Es Es- it is authentically reported is it dawning on some of the largest farmers who have not been pea growers that perhaps they owe it to their communities to make some of their land available for pea growing this year and in future years in order to keep this needed industry in the county Many of the largest farmers and landowners have a sort of balanced program of livestock hay pasture and grain production They have not needed a so-called so cash crop and have not wanted to throw their customary program out of balance by raising peas and having to harvest them at ata a stipulated time which might interfere greatly with other activities Now these landowners or some of them at least are seeing a new light They are taking increasing thought and increasing concern for others in the community and are offering offering offering offer offer- ing to plant peas this year not for their own benefit but butto butto butto to help out a much needed community project Our hats go off to such minded community-minded people and we hope their example will be followed by others until every farmer with good clean land suitable for peas Will vill come forth with an offer to plant 5 10 15 or 20 acres of such land to peas this year in order to help secure operation of the pea cannery Of course there is no assurance yet that the cannery will operate but there is a ray of hope and that ray can be brightened considerably if more of the larger landowners come forth with an offer something like this I realize that the welfare of everyone in this community community community com com- is my problem For the good of the community therefore therefore therefore there there- fore I will be happy to allot 10 or 15 acres of my best land to the growing of peas If you need the acreage Im I'm ready to help o o Christian experience teaches faith in the right and disbelief in the wrong It bids us work the more earnestly in times of persecution because then our labor is more needed Mary Baker Eddy J 4 1 Be as careful of the books you read as of the company company company com com- pany you keep for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter Paxton Paxton Hood The book to read is not the one which thinks for you but the one which makes you think No book in the world equals the Bible for that James McCosh Selfishness is is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others and no one is without in himself Henry Ward Beecher |